Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow, And, Memorial Suspiria
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
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ISBN : 9781094835617
Beginning with a discussion of Levana, the ancient Roman goddess of childbirth, De Quincey imagines three companions for her: Mater Lachrymarum, Our Lady of Tears; Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs; and Mater Tenebrarum, Our Lady of Darkness.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Fiction
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The Suspiria is a collection of prose poems, or what De Quincey called “impassioned prose,” erratically written and published starting in 1854. Each Suspiria is a short essay written in reflection of the opium dreams De Quincey would experience over the course of his lifetime addiction, and they are considered by some critics to be some of the finest examples of prose poetry in all of English literature. De Quincey originally planned them as a sequel of sorts to his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, but the first set was published separately in Blackwood’s Magazine in the spring and summer of that 1854. De Quincey then published a revised version of those first Suspiria, along with several new ones, in his collected works. During his life he kept a master list of titles of the Suspiria he planned on writing, and completed several more before his death; those that survived time and fire were published posthumously in 1891.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 085768535X
Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha. Rome. 1959. Count Dracula is about to marry the Moldavian Princess Asa Vajda - his sixth wife. Journalist Kate Reed flies into the city to visit the ailing Charles Beauregard and his vampire companion Geneviève. Finding herself caught up in the mystery of the Crimson Executioner who is bloodily dispatching vampire elders in the city, Kate discovers that she is not the only one on his trail...
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Literary Collections
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A book about opium usage and the effects of addiction on the authors life.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486837122
A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859). After achieving overnight success with Confessions of an English Opium Eater, an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of Suspiria de Profundis ("Sighs from the Depths"). Like Confessions, these short essays combined drug-induced visions with thought-provoking reflections on the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. With these books, De Quincey inaugurated the genre of addiction literature, a tradition furthered by Charles Baudelaire, William S. Burroughs, and a growing number of modern writers. Suspiria de Profundis continues to influence contemporary artists with the best known of its psychological fantasies, "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow," which centers on myths related to the Roman goddess of childbirth and was the source for the classic 1977 horror film Suspiria and its 2018 remake.